Friday, July 10, 2009

A few readers of The Blot Says… wrote in earlier this week asking why I hadn’t commented on the untimely death of the King of Pop. While I did post some of my thoughts on MJ’s passing on my Twitter page, I ultimately decided not to write about Michael Jackson’s death here on The Blot Says… because I felt (and still do) like the media coverage of this sad event has gone completely overboard and I didn’t want to add to that.

With that being said, I thought it was a nice tribute by (and also a bit opportunistic of) Threadless to reprint its Michael Jackson inspired t-shirt Beat It. “Beat It” the song has always been The Blot’s favorite Michael Jackson songs and what child of the 80’s didn’t want to own one of MJ’s classic red leather zipper jackets? Well now you can in t-shirt form. Threadless has already sold out of a few sizes, but at $18 per shirt I have a feeling they will keep reprinting this tee for as long as demand is high. R.I.P. Michael Jackson, the King of Pop.